I recently got a big bag of family photos from my cousin Glenda, here are just a few. I knew that my Uncle Bill trained greyhounds as did my Dad but I didn’t know how early he started. This photo is from 1948. I found Favorite Chris’ pedigree online but not Lightning Larry’s. … [Read more…]
It’s been an exciting and busy time with Saving Graves this week. As we prepared and researched for a newspaper article we had no idea the media storm it would raise! I’m lucky to be part of a great team who have taken up the cause with gusto and stepped up when needed. Kirrily Burton … [Read more…]
On Sunday my brother Michael and I went to the Rowley Park Speedway reunion. Now this might seem like an unlikely place to go for a genealogist however my Dad’s cousin, Don Willison, raced motorbikes there and at other tracks in South Australia and nationally. We had a wonderful time at the reunion talking to … [Read more…]
I found an old photo album at a market today and on looking through it realised that my Mum may know the family pictured therein. I bought it with the hope of returning it to a family member. The album belonged to a Miss Elizabeth Rachel Cornell and Mum and my Grandma both worked for … [Read more…]
There are three daughters of Edward George Clerk for whom I haven’t been able to ascertain the mother. They are Mary Emily Clerk 1838, Susan Bundarra Clerk 1839 and Anna Maria Clerk 1840. From what I’ve been able to determine they were all born in New South Wales, Australia. Edward George Clerk was born in Somerset, … [Read more…]
What’s the most unusual newspaper article you’ve found on Trove? Did it relate to one of your ancestors? This one isn’t about any of my ancestors but it definitely tops my list of unusual articles at the moment. http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article136318278 It was published in The World’s News, Sydney on 22 April 1950. What an awful way … [Read more…]